page_title: Alpilles
section_title: The Alpilles in arts
hierarchical_section_title: Alpilles / The Alpilles in arts
context_page_description: The Chaîne des Alpilles is a small range of low mountains in Provence, southern France, located about 20 km south of Avignon.
context_section_description: The Alpilles were immortalized in art by Vincent van Gogh, who painted many images of the Alpilles' landscapes during his time in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence on the north side of the mountains. One of the paintings was given by van Gogh to his friend Eugène Boch.
  Alphonse Daudet's 1885 novel Tartarin sur les Alpes, which is a sequel to the 1872 Tartarin de Tarascon, takes place in the Alpilles.
caption: Les Alpilles (1889), painted by van Gogh while in Saint-Rémy
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